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Kara-Lis Coverdale, Music for Organ / Raven Chacon & David Lang performed by Williams ensembles

  • February 16, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  • St. James Church

    117 Hudson Avenue
    Chatham, New York 12037
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Description

12 pm Kara-Lis Coverdale Music for Organ 

1 pm Willams ensembles perform selections from Raven Chacon & David Lang 

The 12 and 1 pm concerts at St. James will be performed back to back. One ticket will give you admission to both events.

Pipe organ is a connective tissue throughout Kara-Lis Coverdale’s opus, underpinning her spectral understanding of sound and harmony. After a hiatus from the instrument for strict focus on electronic touring from 2016–2018, she began to explore solo pipe organ performance internationally. Underlying these works is a spectral sensitivity tempered with animism and weavings of harmonic interjections, described by New York Times writer Jon Pareles as “elevated, disembodied contemplation, patiently celestial.” As part of The Dark, Coverdale presents a program of newly created works for the organ at St. James Church in Chatham along with previously composed material.

Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass is a large ensemble work to be performed in any gathering space of worship with high ceilings and pipe organ. Though ‘mass’ is referenced in the title, the piece contains no audible singing voices, instead using the openness of the large space to intone the constricted intervals of the wind and string instruments. 

In exploiting the architecture of the cathedral, Voiceless Mass considers the futility of giving voice to the voiceless, when providing space is never an option. 

David Lang’s the little match girl passion sets Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Little Match Girl’ in the format of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, interspersing Andersen’s narrative with Lang’s versions of the crowd and character responses from Bach’s Passion.

Date & Time

Mon, Feb 16, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Venue Details

St. James Church

117 Hudson Avenue
Chatham, New York 12037 St. James Church
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